Ready for Your Next Great Travel Adventure?

To help get you started, and to set the scene, below are descriptions from my books of some of the world’s most amazing destinations.  These clips are to help you learn about the location, prep for your travels and drive up your excitement about a specific place.

CANADA

 

Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

When UNESCO, the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization travels around the world looking for ‘world heritage’ sites to preserve, the organization has a mandate to highlight a location humanity would not want to see destroyed because of its cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance. One of those spots is the old town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. A quiet Canadian fishing village sitting in the inlet of Lunenburg Harbor that spills into the Atlantic Ocean.

UNESCO put its stamp on the town because the settlement is laid out on a rectangular grid. Although the land rises from the Atlantic Ocean up a hill, the British colonialists created straight lines, at right angles to mark the town’s streets. According to UNESCO, Lunenburg is the world’s best-preserved example of a planned British colonial settlement, a town set in a rectangular grid pattern.

Today you can find this grid pattern for urban development everywhere in the world…

– Describing Lunenburg in Life Dream: 7 Universal Moves to Get the Life You Really Want through Entrepreneurship by Case Lane

Ontario

The longest road in the world is Yonge Street in Canada. If you start at the eastern end, you will be in downtown Toronto amidst the towering skyscrapers and frantic hustle of a modern city. As you move out along the road, you will pass smaller towns, flat fields, beaten rocks, scraggly trees, until finally you arrive at Rainy River, a small town on the namesake river that forms the border between Canada and the United States at that geographic point. The journey is about 1,900 kilometers, 1,200 miles. Whether you walk, bike or drive – that’s a long trip.

When you travel a long road across approximately one third of a continent, you will inevitably pass varied geographic landscapes and rapidly changing scenery. If the weather changes from sunshine to rain or snow, you have to make adjustments – perhaps change your speed, transportation vehicle or travel time…

– Describing crossing Ontario in Life Dream: 7 Universal Moves to Get the Life You Really Want through Entrepreneurship by Case Lane

 

Vancouver, British Columbia

The mountains pushed against the edge of North America provided a last scope of land before giving way to the endless Pacific Ocean. We descended to the lights of a city caught between water and rock, laid out precariously on points of a

water crevasse and up into the hills stretching eastward into the delta of the Fraser River…

…the seawall in Vancouver’s Stanley Park in Canada. The glittering skyscrapers along the city’s waterfront sprinkled a relentless light on us as the waves of English Bay brushed up against the walkway and bikers, rollerbladers and other walkers encircled us. “Here they can practice nature worship, everyday appreciation for the natural beauty of water, mountains, trees, snow, flowers and leaves.”

…as the backdrop of pine trees and totem poles passed us by. Vancouver had been built to accommodate the views of the mountain peaks and the twisting inlets of waterways that carved out the land. The continuous rain transformed the landscape into deep shades of green and the warmer ocean currents provided generous temperatures for spring flowers to appear as snow still decorated the hills. A city to look at…but encased more in singular outdoor activities when the weather permitted an embrace of the natural way…

As we continued along paved, marked paths that circumnavigated the city’s main park and emerged into downtown and the vertical neighborhoods beyond, I continued, “no great cathedral, no mega statute… no relic from a saint, just an understated homage as they worked hard to fit an urban landscape into a natural vision without destroying it. Having begun a rise to wealth around the same time as the environmental movement, this city now manifests a pretty impressive example of well-intentioned urban planning.”

…Here the rain was unceasing and the natural bounty unending…Here the population could just show up and capture the fresh water dispersions so readily near. “But at least they try to do it right. It’s a different pace here, a big city that still does not feel overwhelming. No panic on the sidewalk just yet, only managed growth and development. Very orderly, very Canadian, that’s the one exalted trait that they offer here, an example of how to go about your day-to-day with democratic order.

– Describing Vancouver, Canada in Walking with J by Karsten Quarters

 

Cracked cement wound between the slapping cold waters of English Bay, and the tall green pine trees of Vancouver’s Stanley Park as Hagen Writstone rounded the bend of his last mile. His running feet swept him along the city’s busy Seawall, one after another at a pounding pace matching the struggle in his heart. To make the most of a dry morning, he would push his workout past a normal speed. But as he came even with his closing meters, he looked up towards the park’s majestic First Nations’ totem poles, and halted in mid-stride.

Joggers and rollerbladers behind him politely invoked the Canadian curse word ‘sorry,’ as they readjusted to avoid a collision. Hagen, noticing their reflexes, hurriedly jumped off the path. His heart was still vibrantly pounding as he dropped his head down to catch his breath.

– Vancouver’s Stanley Park in The Unbroken Line by Case Lane

 

Place: Canada, the north in North America

Visited: My other home.  Educated from kindergarten through university in Winnipeg, Manitoba in the center of the country.

Most Recent Visit: 2017

Original sites: Manageable: Be prepared to travel the length and breadth of a continent to see the natural wonders

Familiarity:  High

English usage: Often: about one-third of the population are in majority French-speaking areas

Surprise: Yes the people really are that friendly and super-embarrassed and apologetic when someone is not.

For Rising Entrepreneurs Expanding to Global Markets: Educated, advanced, well-off, connected and diverse, include Canada in all plans as a market to embrace.

Country Details:  U.N. Country Data Stats for Canada

Reading Recommendations (click the book cover to learn more)

Okay here I can go on and on about my favorite CanLit (Canadian Literature).  Before going to Prince Edward Island, the Anne of Green Gables books will set the mood, and on your way to Manitoba, try my home province favorite Gabrielle Roy.  Really the list is so long…

 

 

 

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